BPSU – CEA EECE0513 – COMPETENCY 1

EE Department Assignment #7 – AY2020/21 – 1ST SEM

Name: __________________________________________ Yr/Sec: ________ Date: _____________

COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS and PROGRAMMING SCORE: _______

Part 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE (1 point each)

1. Abacus was the first
A) electronic computer C) electronic calculator
B) mechanical computer D) mechanical calculator
2. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, the number of addresses will be
A) 216 B) 65,536 C) 64K D) Any of these
3. Instructions and memory address are represented by
A) Character code B) Binary codes C) Binary word D) Parity bit
4. The terminal device that functions as a cash register, computer terminal, and OCR reader is the:
A) Data collection terminal C) Video Display terminal
B) OCR register terminal D) POS terminal
5. A set of flip flops integrated together is called ____
A) Counter B) Adder C) Register D) None of these
6. People often call ______ as the brain of computer system
A) Control Unit B) Arithmetic Logic Unit C) Central Processing Unit D) Storage Unit
7. Which is used for manufacturing chips?
A) Bus B) Control unit C) Semiconductors D) A and B only
8. Instruction in computer languages consists of
A) OPCODE B) OPERAND C) Both of these D) None of these
9. Which generation of computer is still under development
A) Fourth Generation B) Fifth Generation C) Sixth Generation D) Seventh Generation
10. A register organized to allow to move left or right operations is called a ____
A) Counter B) Loader C) Adder D) Shift register
11. Which was the most popular first generation computer?
A) IBM 1650 B) IBM 360 C) IBM 1130 D) IBM 2700
12. Which is considered a direct entry input device?
A) Optical scanner B) Mouse and digitizer C) Light pen D) All of these
13. A set of information that defines the status of resources allocated to a process is
A) Process control B) ALU C) Register Unit D) Process description
14. BCD is
A) Binary Coded Decimal C) Binary Coded Digit
B) Bit Coded Decimal D) Bit Coded Digit
15. When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?
A) Hewlett-Packard, 1980 C) Laplink Traveling Software Inc, 1982
B) Epson, 1981 D) Tandy Model-200, 1985
16. How many address lines are needed to address each machine location in a 2048 x 4 memory chip?
A) 10 B) 11 C) 8 D) 12
17. Properly arranged data is called
A) Field B) Words C) Information D) File
18. A computer consists of
A) A central processing unit B) A memory C) Input and output unit D) All of these
19. Why vacuum tubes also called valves?
A) Because they can amplify the weak signals and make them strong C) Both of these
B) Because they can stop or allow the flow of current D) None of these
 20. An integrated circuit is
A) A complicated circuit C) Much costlier than a single transistor
B) An integrating device D) Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
21. What type of control pins are needed in a microprocessor to regulate traffic on the bus, in order to prevent
two devices from trying to use it at the same time?
A) Bus control B) Interrupts C) Bus arbitration D) Status
22. Multi user systems provided cost savings for small business because they use a single processing unit to
link several
A) Personal computers B) Workstations C) Dumb terminals D) Mainframes
23. The word processing task associated with changing the appearance of a document is
A) Editing B) Writing C) Formatting D) All of these
24. Algorithm and Flow chart help us to
A) Know the memory capacity C) Direct the output to a printer
B) Identify the base of a number system D) Specify the problem completely and clearly
25. Which statement is valid about computer program?
A) It is understood by a computer C) It is understood user
B) It is understood by programmer D) Both A & B
26. The difference between memory and storage is that memory is _____ and storage is __
A) Temporary, permanent C) Slow, fast
B) Permanent, temporary D) All of these
27. A compiler is a translating program which
A) Translates instruction of a high level language into machine language
B) Translates entire source program into machine language program
C) It is not involved in program’s execution
D) All of these
28. What is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?
A) Light pen B) Mouse C) Digitizer D) Terminal
29. The term gigabyte refers to
A) 1024 bytes B) 1024 kilobytes C) 1024 megabytes D) 1024 gigabyte
30. Once you load the suitable program and provide required data, computer does not need human
intervention. This feature is known as
A) Accuracy B) Reliability C) Versatility D) Automatic
31. A byte consists of
A) One bit B) Four bits C) Eight bits D) Sixteen bits
32. The basic operations performed by a computer are
A) Arithmetic operation C) Storage and relative
B) Logical operation D) All of these
33. The two major types of computer chips are
A) External memory chip C) Microprocessor chip
B) Primary memory chip D) Both B and C
34. Microprocessors as switching devices are for which generation computers
A) First Generation B) Second Generation C) Third Generation D) Fourth Generation
35. 5. What is the main difference between a mainframe and a super computer?
A) Super computer is much larger than mainframe computers
B) Super computers are much smaller than mainframe computers
C) Supercomputers are focused to execute few programs as fast as possible while mainframe uses its
power to execute as many programs concurrently
D) Supercomputers are focused to execute as many programs as possible while mainframe uses its power
to execute few programs as fast as possible.
36. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does EBCDIC stand for?
A) Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
B) Extended Bit Code Decimal Interchange Code
C) Extended Bit Case Decimal Interchange Code
D) Extended Binary Case Decimal Interchange Code
37. The brain of any computer system is the
A) ALU B) Memory C) CPU D) Control unit
38. The two kinds of main memory are:
A) Primary and secondary C) ROM and RAM
B) Random and sequential D) All of these
39. A storage area used to store data to compensate for the difference in speed at which the different units can
handle data is
A) Memory B) Buffer C) Accumulator D) Address
40. Integrated Circuits (ICs) are related to which generation of computers?
A) First generation B) Second generation C) Third generation D) Fourth generation
41. CD-ROM is a
A) Semiconductor memory B) Memory register C) Magnetic memory D) None of these
42. A hybrid computer
A) Resembles digital computer C) Resembles both a digital and analogue computer
B) Resembles analogue computer D) None of these
43. Which type of computers uses the 8-bit code called EBCDIC?
A) Minicomputers B) Microcomputers C) Mainframe computers D) Super computer
44. The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from
A) Primary memory B) Control section C) External memory D) Cache memory
45. To produce high quality graphics (hardcopy) in color, you would want to use a/n
A) RGB monitor B) Plotter C) Ink-jet printer D) Laser printer
46. What are the stages in the compilation process?
A) Feasibility study, system design and testing
B) Implementation and documentation
C) Lexical Analysis, syntax analysis, and code generation
D) None of these
47. One millisecond is
A) 1 second B) 10th of a seconds C) 1000th of a seconds D) 10000th of a seconds
48. The output quality of a printer is measured by
A) Dot per sq. inch B) Dot per inch C) Dots printed per unit time D) All of these
49. A physical connection between microprocessor memory and other parts of microcomputer is known as
A) Path B) Address bus C) Route D) All of these
50. A technique used by codes to convert an analog signal into a digital bit stream is known as
A) Pulse code modulation C) Query processing
B) Pulse stretcher D) Queue management